Nostr is the best Lightning "app". Using Lightning to buy food, beer, and merchandise at a #Bitcoin conference a few times a year is cool. However, people do this so infrequently that it's almost seen as a novelty. Using Lightning to pay creators, donate to causes, and provide people with valuable feedback is even cooler. People do this all day long, every single day on Nostr. Zaps are fueling Lightning adoption.

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Absolutly. It would be imperative to implement ligthing to pay for some online stuff like bloggers we want to support, podcast we listen (I know it is supposed to be supported in podcasting 2.0 but it is just not too widely used), videos we like to watch, and it should not be isolated only on Nostr, it should be everywhere like in Telegram, Mastodon, Rumble, Odiseyee, Substack etc....
This is actually very important. If you want more people to be on the network, you need it to become popular. Having an online economy where you can reward creativity will hopefully draw in popular creators. These creators then bring over their followers to #Nostr . Zaps fuel the creator-economy which fuels Nostr adoption. And, of course, it makes charity work very easy. And transparent! I don't see how this protocol won't be ubiquitous within 5 - 10 years. View quoted note →
gm @Derek Ross I’m looking forward to doing my first payment over a spark gap. It must feel amazing. What’s your best guess in terms of timeframes for when paying over the lightning network is a widespread payment option at terminals?
I couldn't even begin to guess. Maybe once Strike or CashApp can being Lightning to Clover and Square, it will start taking off. Strike was supposed to be in Clover, but I don't recall hearing anything after the 90 day beta. That beta should have ended a long time ago.